ST Alpha - Backboarding

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Search Dr. S. Talk
TT/ST Wiki
How Well Do You Know ...

RSS Feed

Hosting by DigitalOcean

Support ST on Ko-Fi

Welcome to SlickerTalk ▲

Kick your heels up, settle in, and get ready for a raucous discussion. The topic is anything and everything: movies, television, politics, music, breaking news, recycled news, orange-colored prediction markets, etc.

Join the Conversation

Suggestions and requests can be sent to team @ slackertalk.com. Or, please use this form to submit a bug report.

Recent News ▲

BlueSky Starter Pack for STers
This is a list of automatic follows when creating a BS account. Special thanks to Kim for setting it up! To bridge your account to the Fediverse, follow @ap.brid.gy (per the Bridgy docs)
the pack

[ SlackerTalk / Beta ] [ SlickerTalk ] [ Dr. S. Talk ]

Live

Down to Post

< Newer

Older >

Posts: 152

jelles marble run -- (link) - Peglegpete May 17, 20:45 [youtube] 1
- watching this makes me think I might actually be going insane. -- nm - mafic May 17, 21:51
ABC will be re-airing The Last Dance docuseries from May 23 to June 20 -- nm - budice May 17, 20:35
'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli Denied Release From Prison To Research Coronavirus Cure -- (link) - zeitgeist May 17, 20:25 5
- Why ? So he can buy a patent, up charge it 300% and buy the only copy of the unreleased Outcast album?, - Epiphany May 17, 20:53
- He can still research the cure in prison -- nm - budice May 17, 20:31 3
  - He can start by analyzing his own bowel movements. -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 20:33 2
    - Won’t he need to move his head first? -- nm - Qale May 17, 20:45 1
      - I'm not sure if he's pissed off Hancock yet at this point in the film -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 20:58
New Mutants can’t be sent direct to streaming because it has to debut on HBO and get a theatrical release per the pre-Disney agreement Fox/HBO had. -- (link) - spamlet May 17, 20:09 2
- Cursed movie is cursed. -- nm - Qale May 17, 20:45
- ooooooohhhhhh -- nm - budice May 17, 20:30
Hikaru Shida recently started a youtube channel. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy May 17, 19:45
Today at the grocery store, 90% of the customers not wearing masks. Not really surprised. - tRuMaN May 17, 19:43 2
- So different from when I went early in the week. 100%. (Illinois) - zunkskunk May 17, 20:28
- That is what most of the pitching of fits is - they wish that this was not happening and think if they pretend it it's not, it isn't. -- nm - Reagen May 17, 19:55
You know what common complaint I haven't seen once since all this started? "Streaming service fatigue" - con_carne May 17, 19:28
I'm streaming Murder, She Wrote and a character in a 3rd season episode is channeling Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons. - TWuG May 17, 18:57 1
- Archangel? Nice. -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 19:00
Okay, say that they have a vaccine ready in September of 2021 ... it's passed preliminary approvals ... ready for wide deployment. Do you get it? -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 18:35 24
- Depends on wither the Donald touts it powerfully for being tremendous, or if it comes from UK/eu -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 19:33
- It will depend on whether I've been able to get an antibody test by then. And whether antibodies confer immunity. -- nm - TWuG May 17, 18:40
- (Or, in other words, how confident are you that the vaccine will be tested enough to be deemed safe?) - Beryllium May 17, 18:37 20
  - As a decorated vaccine-study veteran, yes. All the yesses I can bring to the debate, yes. - landbeck May 17, 22:29
  - do you mean 2020, or 2021? Either way, I'm in. -- nm - JaxSean May 17, 21:04 3
    - 2021 -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 21:06 2
      - I'd be in Sept 2020. I fully expect there to be one in wide circulation by Sept 2021. - JaxSean May 17, 21:10 1
        
        2020 has been so crazy already that I halfway expect the vaccine to cause some sort of terrible movie situation, like zombieland or Pluto Nash -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 21:13
  - That's my concern. I am not first in line -- nm* - James Bond (aka Igor) May 17, 19:43
  - the big question is whether its effective...and don't forget, the prelim tests half are in the control group and get only a placebo -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 19:36
  - Depends on whether it's a live virus vaccine or a inactivated vaccine. - TWuG May 17, 18:44 3
    - there's a "TWuG is pregnant" joke in here I can't quite find. -- nm - mafic May 17, 19:04 2
      - We've not announced, so keep it off Facebook. - TWuG May 17, 19:35
      - Look for the biopic in 2027: Children of TWuG -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 19:12
  - Let's just say I'm not going to want to be first in line. - znufrii, silly old man May 17, 18:40 7
    - You're assuming it's an American made vaccine that hits first. -- nm - Reagen May 17, 19:14 5
      - If it’s not American made Trump will be guaranteed to fuck it up for us and we won’t get it -- nm - Epiphany May 17, 19:39 3
        
        That's an interesting conundrum. The rest of the world agreed to share the antidote, but we weren't in on it. - JaxSean May 17, 21:09 1
        
        So we do what people are doing now - nip across the border to Canada or Mexico for it. -- nm - Meg May 17, 21:14
        
        the lady makes a good point. -- nm - mud May 17, 19:49
      - -- nm* - con_carne May 17, 19:23
    - Umm mmm -- nm - Epiphany May 17, 19:14
  - in a year and a half? I'd be fine with it. -- nm - mafic May 17, 18:39
- Duh -- nm - Ender May 17, 18:36
Have we posted about MTV’s Rediculousness schedule? -- (link) - Qale May 17, 18:31 7
- 2008: MTV drops its tag line "Music Television" -- which means MTV now literally stands for nothing. -- nm - Spawn May 17, 18:38 1
  - "Miscellaneous Television?" -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 17, 20:10
- The Challenge is all that matters. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 17, 18:33 1
  - This is correct but it doesn’t make the rest absurd. -- nm - Volnelk, Caveman and Survivor # Picking Champion. May 17, 18:49
- Only MTV I watch has music videos -- nm - budice May 17, 18:32
- Have they considered maybe playing..music videos? -- nm - ty97 May 17, 18:32 1
  - They did after 9/11. -- nm - Qale May 17, 18:38
How is tomorrow Monday again already? -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 17, 18:26 5
- There are days of the week? -- nm - Krusty May 17, 20:19
- Time to wakeup and goto work -- nm - budice May 17, 18:29
- Yeah, that can't be right. -- nm - Spawn May 17, 18:29
- Tomorrow is Sunday 2 for me -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 18:28
- Time has lost all meaning -- nm - JaxSean May 17, 18:27
Dyson killed off their electric car project back in October. Which is too bad, 'cause it looks great. -- (link) - Mop May 17, 17:46 7
- The specs are interesting, but if they killed the project, it's because they couldn't make the numbers work. - TWuG May 17, 18:08 6
  - They said $150k -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) May 17, 18:35 5
    - They needed to make that off each, so more. -- nm - . May 17, 20:17
    - Love to see the margins they expected at that number. -- nm - TWuG May 17, 18:38
    - shit, for that price I can get like 2 or 3 of their vacuums... -- nm - Beaker May 17, 18:36 2
      - I've had both Dyson and Shark vacuums. Sharks are loads better and loads less expensive. -- nm - TWuG May 17, 18:39 1
        
        We had a dyson - my wife didn't like it. For me, it felt extremely lightweight, but I chalked that up to potentially superior design ... -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 20:35
Lake is ready. beds made; slides out, water and power hooked up, trailer leveled. Giggity -- nm - Beaker May 17, 17:39 4
- Beaker's going off the grid! Take us with you! -- nm - Mop May 17, 17:40 3
  - for the first time in 3 years we are there in May rather than July (no flood). So weird cause everything looks bare as no leaves out yet -- nm* - Beaker May 17, 17:42 2
    - Get a head start on digging before the Lagina brothers get there! -- nm - Mop May 17, 17:46 1
      - found 5 pieces of beach glass today! -- nm - Beaker May 17, 17:46
To close to me! A man was shot (but not killed) by a beggar/mugger whom his wife had obligingly given a few dollars to. Apparently it wasn’t enough. -- nm - Qale May 17, 17:04 1
- Texas Batman Origin Story? - Beryllium May 17, 17:06
Official word from RCAF: 1 dead, 1 injured -- (link) - Beryllium May 17, 16:55 1
- "Sources tell CBC that Capt. Jennifer Casey, a public affairs officer with the Snowbirds, died in the crash." -- (link) - TWuG May 17, 18:10
Marc Maron's response to the sudden passing of his gf Lynn Shelton. -- (link) - GregW May 17, 16:30 1
- Yeah, it was in the B2 link. Horrible. -- nm - Spawn May 17, 16:46
Karen #1 -- (link) - Reagen May 17, 16:27 3
- she's gonna get all her packages returned as not home, not picked up -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 18:22
- Karen #2 -- (link) - Reagen May 17, 16:28 1
  - this lady never shops online. and depending on whether the place has self-checkout: "ma'am the cashier has to see your 'private items' anyway." -- nm - mafic May 17, 19:07
LA fire 4 still in ICU with burns, heat melted their helmets and caught their coats on fire as they climbed down ladder through fire ball -- (link) - zeitgeist May 17, 16:18 1
- Word is a company with the same name had a similar fire a few years back. Last night's building does not appear in any city records. - Meg May 17, 17:18
The Who Live at Leeds was released 50 years ago today! official WHO instagram posted it, with video from Isle of Wight. -- (link) - loosilu May 17, 16:10 2
- Close enough for rock n roll -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 16:16
- ooops! I guess yesterday. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 16:11
Spawn, that batman thing might be fake. Eff it all. -- nm - Shaun May 17, 16:00 1
- All is lost. - Spawn May 17, 16:51
This is clearly a bad tweet, but I can't figure out why. -- (link) - loosilu May 17, 15:32 33
- living on reds, vitamin C and cocaine, all her friends can say is ain't it a shame. -- (edited) - Peglegpete May 17, 15:56 [youtube] 1
  - ha! -- nm - loosilu May 17, 16:00
- Pictured: the best and only reply -- (link) - Beryllium May 17, 15:50 11
  - I love the people thinking there's no way there'd be proof they invented the term. -- nm - Reagen May 17, 16:26
  - I have no idea who she is. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 15:54 7
    - She's one of the creators of The Matrix, which is where the red pill/blue pill dialogue came from. -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 15:55 6
      - ahhhhh, thank you. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 15:57 4
        
        We knew them as the Wachowski Brothers directors back at Matrix time. They have both transitioned since. -- nm* - ty97 May 17, 17:13 3
        
        Wait, they both did? I did not know this -- nm - JaxSean May 17, 17:44 2
        
        At different times, a couple of years apart IIRC. -- nm - ty97 May 17, 18:08 1
        
        looking now, it was more than a couple of years. -- nm - ty97 May 17, 18:11
      - Lily Wachowski, that is -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 15:55
  - Better Pic here -- (pic) - budice May 17, 15:52 [Attachment] 1
    - Elon posted the matrix meme, what if I told you WTF only a moron takes both pills -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 16:06
- "red pill", in Internet Dickwad Parlance, refers to becoming a misogynistic jackass, so it's double nonsensical. -- nm* - Reagen May 17, 15:35 18
  - I always forget which pill does what. -- nm - znufrii May 17, 15:39 13
    - red = reality. Both start with R. That's how I keep it straight. -- nm - Open Baron May 17, 17:21 1
      - Blue = battery -- nm - con_carne May 17, 17:23
    - one pill makes you larger and another makes you small. but the ones that mother gives you, don't do anything at all. go ask Alice, when she's 10' tall -- nm - Peglegpete May 17, 16:03 1
      - one pill and you'll wake up having the pleasant memories you paid for, the other pill will leave in a skitzophrenic catatonic state the rest of your l -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 16:08
    - The thing that never fails to crack me up is that they shipped a metaphor for "waking up" by two transgender women. -- nm - Reagen May 17, 15:51
    - Red pill is eyes open, blue pill is eyes shut. -- nm - Spawn May 17, 15:46 7
      - I know what you’re asking yourself. Because I’ve been asking myself the same thing. ‘Why oh why didn’t I take the blue pill?’ -- nm - Qale May 17, 15:51 6
        
        ^ which was a metaphor for a woke ally betraying their "friends" in order to rejoin the privileged patriarchy -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 15:54 5
        
        I know he’s a bad guy, but I like Cipher’s character. I feel it goes deeper than just betrayal. -- nm - Qale May 17, 15:59 2
        
        He's the most like us besides Neo. That's why it feels good when he puts the shades back on and rejoins Morpheus for a bit -- nm - con_carne May 17, 17:18
        
        He also feels like he was betrayed (or at least lied to) by Morpheus. I'm sure there are other things that I can't remember right now, too. -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 16:59
        
        Been too long since I watched. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 15:58 1
        
        Well it has since been an infamous banned subreddit. And a thing on 4chan, I assume. -- nm - con_carne May 17, 17:02
  - seriously? -- nm - loosilu May 17, 15:37 3
    - I mean you'd have to ask them what *they* think it means, and it's probably not even the same thing. -- nm - Reagen May 17, 15:40 2
      - It was a red rose so clearly she accepted his marriage proposal. -- nm - Spawn May 17, 15:44 1
        
        Baby R3-Bingoboingo-Starfall-X%£¥ has a new mommy? -- nm - Will Hunting May 17, 17:17
He isn't running -- (link) - Todd Manning May 17, 15:12
good poll : -- (link) - mud May 17, 14:58 1
- Depends on the day I'm having. -- nm - . May 17, 20:10
Rona Ambrose, Canada's former health minister, joins Juul's board of directors -- (link*) - mud May 17, 14:55 3
- Remember when the current health minster saying "there's no indication" China falsified their data was the worst thing ever? -- nm - Mop May 17, 15:22
- (Conservative's love money) -- nm - Beaker May 17, 15:12 1
  - and America -- nm - Beaker May 17, 15:12
oops -- (link) - mud May 17, 14:03 3
- Related -- (link) - Beryllium May 17, 14:04 1
  - [snork] -- nm - mud May 17, 14:07
- I saw that elsewhere with the spoiler caption - Beryllium May 17, 14:04
Police are responding to the murder hornets. They are using the SWAT team to set up a sting operation. -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 13:38 2
- I hope they hired Britt Reid as a specialized consultant -- nm - Peglegpete May 17, 14:48
- Chief Wiggum's got this. -- (link) - Mop May 17, 13:40 [youtube]
Enya...59 today -- nm - Remlik May 17, 13:24 3
- Her career is interesting. Dont think she ever did concerts. -- nm - loosilu May 17, 16:08 1
  - Apparently not -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 16:12
- HBD Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 13:29
Andrew Scheer backed off renouncing his US citizenship after resigning as Conservative leader -- (link*) - Reagen May 17, 13:06 2
- no see, but what if he wants to live there one day? -- nm - mafic May 17, 17:53
- he's such a piece of shit -- nm - Beaker May 17, 14:49
Oh, it could be about to get worse ... rumour that the pilot was a woman from Halifax. NS just can't catch a break this year. -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 12:59
They didn’t eject soon enough. :(. - Will Hunting May 17, 12:54 1
- Yeah, it's not looking good for survival ... -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 12:56
now I want a "famous fried onion burger" -- (link) - mud May 17, 12:42
The house beside the crash site is for sale. -- (link) - Beryllium May 17, 12:39 3
- Those are two weird looking chairs in the basement. -- nm - Loyola May 17, 12:46 2
  - It's for the ghosts. -- nm - Mop May 17, 13:18
  - Look like antiques of some sort. -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 12:49
How do we know that was not mop with a British accent on B2? -- nm - Spawn May 17, 12:26

Post a message top

< Newer

Older >

(Disclaimer: This website uses cookies to store identifying information. Please practice safe password usage.)